[LAU] My first Linux audio recording...

Kjetil S. Matheussen k.s.matheussen at notam02.no
Sun Jun 28 11:17:24 EDT 2009


Kim Cascone:
>
> I guess I must have misread the Audacity web site and the manual because
> a moderator on the Audacity Forum just enlightened me to the fact that
> Audacity is NOT an audio editor (as 99.9% of the users falsely believe)
> but an 'Editorial Production Environment Manager'! </sarcasm>
>
> Audacity leaves *a lot* to be desired when it comes to making loops
>
> to wit: having to hit stop or pause so Audacity can 'pick up' the loop
> start and/or stop markers that were moved during playback makes crafting
> loops very painful - I'd go so far as to say useless actually.
>
> can anyone suggest an audio editor (on Linux) that edits loops in real-time?
>

Snd-ls does that. Press ctrl to change start and end points.


Emiliano Grilli:
>
> I don't use snd much but I see it has a lot of potential (snd-ls comes
> to mind) - it also give me sporadic xruns, but not as much as rezound.
>

Yes, plain snd has unfortunately some problems with xruns in jack,
but snd-ls should play properly...




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